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Tuesday 18 September 2018
5974 9000 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au A Red Hill mountain bike rider competing in last year’s Gravity Enduro event. Picture: Supplied
Bikers peddle bid for trail network MORNINGTON Peninsula’s largest mountain bike club, the Red Hill Riders, wants the slopes of Arthurs Seat to be seen as a biking “hot spot” for national and even international events. The club’s members are hoping for a grant through the state government’s Pick My Project competition to build a trail network that will take riders from the top of Arthurs Seat to the bottom at Hillview community reserve. The club recently partnered with the Arthurs Seat Eagle to get riders aboard the chairlift. “The Mornington Peninsula is well regarded as one of the hot spots of mountain biking in Australia, and businesses have long been a beneficiary of mountain bike related tourism,” Red Hill Riders president Terence Toh said. “If we were to be successful in our bid, we would be able to seriously expand the park’s trails, which would provide better access for riders of varying ages and abilities, including beginner riders.” “Anxious wait for pick a project cash” Page 5
AGL’s environment pitch to state Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au STATE planning minister Richard Wynne is expected to decide before the end of the month on the need for power company AGL to undertake full environmental studies into the effects of a floating gas terminal at Crib Point.
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AGL and APA Transmission - which, if approved, will build a gas pipeline from Crib Point to Pakenham - submitted details of their proposals to Mr Wynne last Tuesday (11 September). Later that night Mornington Peninsula Shire called for “a state government-run transparent consultation process [into the importation of gas]
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that includes examining environmental effects and problems associated with the proposed 60 kilometre pipeline through agricultural land”. The motion by Cr David Gill adopted unanimously by council, said the shire “shares community concerns” about the AGL’s gas import plan. State Liberal MP for Hastings Neale
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Burgess and his federal Liberal colleague Flinders MP Greg Hunt have both said they oppose the gas terminal at Crib Point. The project for the 300 metre long floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) - which AGL says is yet to be approved by its board - must also get the go ahead from the federal government.
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On 8 August Ports Minister Luke Donnellan told state parliament he supports “the proposal to bring gas in through the port of Hastings” and gave assurances “the proposal will go through a full environment effects statement process” (“Government support for gas plan” The News 28/8/18). Continued Page 14
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